Up the Sandbox!

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Roiphe’s second novel, Up the Sandbox! (1970), is probably her best known. The sharply satiric work chronicles the story of a college-educated young mother, Margaret, trapped in a humiliating marriage and a thankless domestic routine. To delineate Margaret’s vague longings for change, Roiphe’s narrative alternates between Margaret’s real…